Im home sick today and heard "golden Brown" playing so i walked into the other room to see a heapin' stack of golden brown Orieda french fries on the TV. What The Fuck?

i just saw this commercial recently and am horrified.

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a song about dope, used to hawk french fries

that is truly great

good song!

I'm all for it. Whoever came up with this idea is, I'm sure a huge Stranglers fan, so it doesn't bother me in the least. It's way cooler than Volkswagen using the Buzzcoks, that's for damn sure.

You know what'd be rad? "Return The Gift" by Gang Of Four ("Please send me evenings and weekends.") used to sell mobile phones. That'd be AWEXOME!

Whoever came up with this idea is, I'm sure a huge Stranglers fan, so it doesn't bother me in the least.

Not necessarily. I have a strange feeling that these ad-wizards are plugging certain phrases into a huge database (allmusic?) to come up with songs to use for their commercials. They just pick a phrase that they want to emphasize about whatever they're trying to sell, and then find a song that uses those lyrics.

Some possible examples:
-Wrangler jeans probably picked "Red White Blue" to show how American they are, and came up with "Fortunate Son" by CCR

-Cadillac picked "Rock And Roll" and got the song by Zeppelin to try and appeal to a younger demographic.

-The US Navy couldn't think of anything, so they put "YYYEEEEEEAAAAAHHHH" into the search engine and came up with "Awake" by Godsmack.

wow, i really can't believe that a Stranglers song is on a commercial

Actually last year i heard "Peaches" in an Adidas ad.

I don't remember if i had mentioned this before, but did anyone see the show Bonzai? There was an episode with Hugh Cornwall... He was in a contest to see who could smoke a ciggarette the fastest...or slowest? I dont remember. He was up against the slimy guitarist from the Sex Pistols. Hugh won.

-wilson

At this point everything is up for sale. There might have been a time when punk was fucking scary as hell to ad people and parents, bot not anymore.

Independent music if one of my great loves, but it is not daring and tapping into 'obscure' fonts of cultural capital is an old game at this point.

Now, that having been said, I will be truly disturbed if I turn on the TV and see/hear any of the following:

Melt-Banana shilling Coors Lights ( uh ya ya ya ya ya ya)(though I wouldn't mind hearing their version of the Spider-man theme somewhere behind Toby Maguire's monotone come SM2)

MX-80 Sound shilling multi-colored miatas or VW bugs (follow that car)

Borbatamagus shilling Heinz 57 (while some hipster kids waits for the ketchup to defile his falafel)

Feederz shilling tampons (widescreen faux scene featuring a female version of James Bond blowing shit up, driving at top speed through shopping malls, and leaping off of glass buildings only to then wink at the camera and duck into a room marked 'ladies.')


Gang of Four behind a fucken cell phone commercial? I know GoF are now flavor of the month but christ, at least use them ironically...you know, 'To Hell With Poverty' behind a jewelry commercial or ... I don't know...you should be horsewhipped.

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Ranxerox wrote:Gang of Four behind a fucken cell phone commercial? I know GoF are now flavor of the month but christ, at least use them ironically...you know, 'To Hell With Poverty' behind a jewelry commercial or ... I don't know...you should be horsewhipped.

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It was a joke, brah!

Besides, there's nothing that a television commercial could do to Gang Of FOur's reputation that Andy Gill hasn't already done.

scelops wrote:Im home sick today and heard "golden Brown" playing so i walked into the other room to see a heapin' stack of golden brown Orieda french fries on the TV. What The Fuck?

Fuck, man, I guess you haven't head "Always the Sun" on Golden Toast commercials....